Is Google colab free?

More technically, Colab is a hosted Jupyter notebook service that requires no setup to use, while providing access free of charge to computing resources including GPUs. Is it really free of charge to use? Yes. Colab is free of charge to use .

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Is Google colab a Python IDE?

Google have released Colaboratory: a web IDE for python , to enable Machine Learning with storage on the cloud — this internal tool had a pretty quiet public release in late 2017, and is set to make a huge difference in the world of machine learning, artificial intelligence and data science work.

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Do you need an IDE to run Python?

Another good point to consider is your use of programming languages in general; if you expect Python to be your main language, with little use of others, or you expect to use Python as your only non-IDE-bound language, an IDE is probably a good idea; you’ll get good at using it and it will be an effective tool for …

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